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A person gets a Covid-19 test.
Those checks have found more than 50 people arriving in the country without a valid test since last Tuesday.
These people are given a choice between either flying home to Australia or going into managed isolation – except for Queenstown where there is no managed isolation hotel.
More than 10 people who have travelled to Queenstown for skiing holidays in recent days without a valid test have opted to fly back to Australia.
Five people have been transferred from the resort town’s airport to Christchurch managed isolation hotels on self-contained buses driven by people trained in infection prevention.